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Summary: WTF?
Review: I recall spending a great deal of time grinning maniacally while I read Crossroads of Twilight. The world is meshing together in a beautiful pattern of twisted plot threads slowly pulling tighter to reveal a pattern. If you can't handle being required to think on your own, you might not want to read this book. Or the series. Otherwise, settle in for another glorious volume of tangled intrigue, plotting, webs of deception, and Moridin. Anybody who says the latest books lack interesting content has obviously overlooked Moridin, who is quite possibly the most amusing character, apart from Mat. If you think Jordan has lost his touch, then look elsewhere, but don't spoil it for someone else just because you think you could do a better job.
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Summary: Still Waiting
Review: Surprise, surprise more build up and little or no action. This series is definitely making me understand why men don't like to be teased for too long! Is it possible for your brain to turn blue? O.K. it isn't horrible, it just isn't great. Again we are treated to the characters doing little or nothing. Rand barely appears and the majority of time is spent just setting up what is supposed to happen one day in the future. The whole book is basically about traveling around and talking about what is happening to the world as evil gains more influence. I hate to say it but I am actually hoping that the "bad guys" will win, or at least kill someone significant! The series has gotten so pathetic that you know no one is going to die, after all they must be there at the "last battle". Jordan is so in love with his characters that even the ones that he killed off, he has to hint at there returning to life. I just want someone "good" to be less then invincible. At least have something horrible happen to someone. Maybe Rand could get ....? I know that is cruel but he does have twins on the way so it isn't like he wouldn't have children. O.K. that is bad, well maybe one of the girls could lose a leg or be tricked into having an evil child. Give them some hard choices for once! Basically if you have read the last few books then you know what this book offers, more of the same. Nothing happens and it doesn't look like anything will be happening any time soon. If you haven't started at the first book of this series then it really isn't worth reading. In fact, if he continues this way, even loyal readers should save some time and just wait until the final book comes out to read any more. Personally, I will probably continue reading the series and hoping that Jordan will speed it to its conclusion.
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Summary: The greatest book I've ever read!
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! God, I can't get enough, this is the most amazing book in the history of mankind. Let me explain. You see I have, for some time, had trouble falling asleep. Nothing worked (except large amounts of alcohol, and that brought on its own set of problems), until I got this glorious piece of sh...literature. Afterwards, I couldn't fall asleep fast enough! This book is so dull and tedious, its like paper chloroform. Thank you, Robert Jordan! P.S. The best part is that even after I finally finished the book (probably in my sleep), I can still use it for its god-given purpose. All I have to do is think back to any part of this "torture-with-letters", and I'm out like a rock.
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Summary: Transitional
Review: In the main, CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT (CoT) is a transitional entry in the WHEEL OF TIME series, though not so mundane a passage as PATH OF DAGGERS. The Prologue is over-long, but the threads of lesser storylines are relegated there. The remainder of the book follows several major players, each for a few chapters before moving on to the next. CoT includes an updated Glossary. Most of the much-harped-on repetitions are absent -- braid tugging, friends wished for when talking with women, and so on. Some exposition is repetitive to series followers, but mininal and required for series neophytes and passers-by. Highlights: Rand and Logain meet. (Still looking forward to a Rand/Galad meeting.) Gawyn makes an appearance. Another old Talent surfaces. Some clarification on which new Forsaken is which. Much groundwork laid for what happens next. Particularly interesting is the expansion on a plot point first raised in EYE OF THE WORLD (Book 1 of the series), one of the myriad things Min saw on first meeting Rand and company. And that's one of the hallmarks of the series: Jordan throws in so many seemingly unnoteworthy details that later come to the fore, revealing only in hindsight their importance, and with little or no revisionist history. Almost as if reading the source of prophecy.
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Summary: DUPED AGAIN....!!!!!
Review: I began reading this series as a 15 year old high school sophomore. I am now a college educated professional ( no spelling cracks please.) I have purchased every book in hardback. I have tread heavily with MAT, PERRIN, and RAND. I remember when THOM was a GREAT charachter. This series is no longer worth the hours. I used to deal with Aes Seadi whining (remember NYNEVE wishing che could channel,,or pining after LAN)but no longer. I AM DONE>>
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Summary: It's getting old.
Review: Reading this book is like reading the first draft of an obviously intelligent student's term paper, and realizing that it was started two hours before class. We know that Robert Jordan is capable of greatness, and we get "Glimmers" (heh) of it throughout the book, but the overall book feels rushed in the sense that it is extremely unpolished and slow in the sense that, well, as everyone has pointed out, NOTHING HAPPENS.
Things that were once so interesting about his story(the male/female dynamic, for example...) have devolved into cliches, at the price of not only his series' greatness but also its realism. The best example I can give is when Setalle Anan hands Tuon a mug to throw at Matt during one of their little domestic disputes. Ok, has Setalle Anan, the former Aes Sedai who risked her skin to get her daughters and that petulant Green out of Ebou Dar alive completely forgotten that Tuon is the HEAD OF THE SEANCHAN ARMY, the EMBODIMENT OF ALL EVIL in her eyes? Or is it just that, in Robert Jordan's world, no matter what differences seperate the two, one woman will always take another's side against a man, even if that man is her daughters' saviour and the woman is (all together now) THE EMBODIMENT OF ALL THAT IS EVIL?
What's worse, the main characters seem to have devolved as well. At first I was dissappointed to hear that my favorite female character, Nyneave, was hardly in the book at all. When I saw her cameo, and reread her sections in Winter Heart, I was relieved. She evolved quite a bit in the first half of the series, from bossy Wisdom to reluctant apprentice to self-loathing coward and finally, miracle worker and hero. Then, for some reason, she devolved into a petulant child who runs off with Rand and Lan in Book Nine to go on an "adventure" (reflecting, rather stupidly at one point, that "my God, people are going to die!!! Keep in mind this is the same woman who burned a Seanchan soldier to death in Book Two.) Now in Book Ten, we see her acting as Lan's cheerleader. I hope Moghedien finds her quick and reminds her of who she was.
There were good parts. Alviarin's point of view was excellent (except for Shadar Haran, who comes across less as an avatar for the Dark One and more as a dirty old man) and the ghosts were a nice touch. But none of the main characters are readable anymore. Nyneave's a twit, Rand doesn't seem to do much, Perrin needs to grow up.... Elayne simply NEEDS TO DIE. Only Mat and Egwene still retain any vestige of their former selves, and Mat spends the entire book getting browbeaten by his future wife and Egwene gets clonked on the head.
The book wouldn't have been so bad if the first half of the series hadn't been so good.
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Summary: Jordan repeats himself
Review: If I hear the phrase "icy blue stare" to describe an Aes Sedai one more time, I'm burning all of his books. This has the potential to be one of the best fantasy series of all time and Mr. Jordan is wasting his time on basking in the minutae of his world. Yes, we know there is intrigue. We know you can't trust anyone. We know everything balances on the edge of a knife. Why doesn't he just get on with it and do something already!? And has anyone noticed that almost every character in these books has begun to have the same outlook on things except for Mat? Please, I beg you, make some progress in the next book or you have lost a loyal reader.
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Summary: how long....?
Review: OK, so i know the golden rule is not to judge a book until you've read the final word - but with Crossroads it is very difficult to get there. After reading another chapter filled with discriptions of every miner character and what they are wearing (and if they are women, how they straighten dresses that don't need straightening), in which all Elayne managed to do was walk across the camp and think about stuff (note: not actually do anything, just think about it), this is becoming an increasingly boring read. I'm sticking with it though because Jordan has already proved that he can write a brilliant story, and this is not yet the end - perhaps even these past few very slow novels are part of his grand plan for the whole series, and we'll all feel like idiots for critising once the series is finished.
Still 3 stars though for the characters that we all love (although we loved them more when they actually did stuff), and for the hope that the series will pick up again and finish in the same glory that it began.
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Summary: DISAPPOINTING
Review: In one word, DISAPPOINTING. RJ has stretched the plot so thin, eight (!) different sub-plots going on in parallel, that after you've gone through the 680 pages you realize nothing much has happened! There was more action packed into one chapter in the first few books than the whole of this one. I can't help suspecting that RJ is stretching (milking?) The Wheel of Time on and on so he can get to book Twenty and we will still all be waiting for Taimon Gideon.....
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Summary: Whatever
Review: It was a pretty good book but it didn't really have that much content just a little bit of a info compared to the others.
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